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Reading Signs

 

Photo by Brent Keane


6/3/24

The first sign.

On Sunday the earthquakes started along Kilauea

4.0 on the surface, but  20 miles down the road in Hilo,

only a community alert on my husbandʻs phone 

gave us any indication that Pele was waking up from nap.


The second sign. 

On Monday morning, during a 4 am Zoom class,

Lava, Pele, was fountaining out of an old rift zone

Her glow calling locals and tourists alike out of bed like a siren

luring sailors onto her rocks.

By 10 am she was done,

leaving only a shower of sulfuric smoke to mark her path

across the new black pahoehoe.

Third sign. On Monday evening, Kanehekili,

brother to Pele and Hiʻiakaikapoliopele,

born from the mouth of Haumea

rolls into Waiakea and Hilo bringing his thunder, lightning, rain.

The sky lights up the Panaewa forest outside my home

rain stomping on our totan roof and waking my moʻo

who calls out for me as I try to compose this poem. 

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Anarchy - non recognition of authority or other controlling system

Education anarchy pushes back against the authoritarian

    corporate structures

    standardized curriculum

    definition of success and thriving, challenges, barriers, obstacles, deficiencies, "readiness"

    as defined by the OTHERs

Anarchist  as the lava that is Pele, devourer, creator, contemporary, heat bringer, kupuna

Anarchy as Pele manifested into heat and vog, sulfur and rock, rivers of fire, stone thrower, bomb maker.


Pono - moral, upright, righteous, excellent, sustaining, survivance

fairly small words that explode with the possibility for hulihia and hoʻoulu

Pono as Hiʻiaka, Hiʻiakaikapoliopele, younger sister, brought as an egg in the bosom of Pele

The life bringer, gardener, surfer, dancer, peace maker


Pono anarchism  as a hula sustained by love and rage

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